Braces



Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

UNITED sTATEs langes saranr casita.

PIERRE MARIE JOSEPH LAELECHE, or PARrsKERANCE, ns'sIsNoR' '.ro SOCIETELAELEGHE FRERES, or PARIS, FRANCE.

BRACES.

Application led November 10, 1920. Serial No. 423,154.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PIERRE MARIE JOSEPH LAELCHE, a citizen of the FrenchRepublic,

residing at No. 69 Rue Beaumur, Paris, France, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in and Relating to Braces, of which thefollowing is a specication.

Braces for holding trousers `as have hitherto been proposed, comprisegenerally, whatever Vtheir system may be, a vertical piece which isapplied on the back and two straps branching from the said piece andpassing over the shoulders.

The assemblage of the said pieces necessitates cutting and sewingoperations, and requires a strengthening which is often made by means ofleather or pieces of cloth.

All those arrangements are expensive and they determine a right side anda wrong side of the braces.

On the other side, the length is adjusted by means of buckles andpressure clips7 which are incommodious, stain the shirts and are veryexpensive.

'Iihe present invention relates to improved braces which are made of onepiece and may be made without any metallic part, thus avoiding the`above drawbacks.

In principle, the new braces are made of one st-rap of fabric, cloth orelastic band which is bent in the shape of a V, the back tabs beingpassed through the bottom of the V and the two ends of the strap beingVprovided with the front tabs secured thereto by any suitable means.

Preferably, the said single strap is made of two superposed fabrics,held together at certain intervals by sewing or preferably 40 by meansof warp threads inserted in the two fabrics, thus forming compartmentsin which it is possible to pass the above tabs, whereby the length ofthe braces may be adjusted at will.

The invention is illustrated, by way of example only in the accompanyingdrawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the new braces.

Fig. 2 shows a developed strap forming the braces.

Figures 3, 4: and 5 show details.

Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating the man ner of weaving the materialfrom which the braces are made.

As shown in the drawing, the new braces are made of a strap al made offabric, cloth or elastic band, bent as shownin Fig. l.

'Ihe back tab b is inserted in the bend'of the Strap and the front tabsc are secured to its free ends.

The strap a is preferably made of two superposed fabrics d e Fig. 4,interconnected at intervals, along lines f by sewing or by means of warpthreads passing in the two fabrics. Compartments or pockets g are o5-thus formed through which the tabs b and c m-ay be passed.

In the diagram shown in Fig. 6, h designates the upper textile warpthreads; c' designates the lower textile warp threads; y' 70 the upperelastic warp threads; 7c the lower elastic warp threads; Z the upperweft threads and m the lower weft threads. The part designated by Acomprises seventy-six upper and seventy-six lower weft threads, only afew of which' are shown. Part B, that is, the part corresponding to f inFig.

5 has four upper and four lower weft threads. Part C has eight upper andeight lower weft threads. Part D has four upper 30 and four lower weftthreads and part E has seventysix upper and seventy-six lower weftthreads, only a few of which are shown.

'Ihe above division into compartments or pockets may be made along theentire length of the strap or only along those parts in which the tabsare placed.

The two fabrics constituting the strap may be of different widths.

It will be readily seen that the new braces are reduced to a minimum ofelements, that their manufacture is considerably simplified and the costprice considerably reduced. All the drawbacks due to the metallic partsand to the presence of leather are thus avoided.

I wish it to be understood that the above arrangements are given by wayof example only. The shapes, sizes, materials which are used, and allmodifications of detail may be varied without in any way departing from100 the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is A suspender formed of a single strap folded intermediateits ends into V-shaped CII formation, said strap consisting ofsuperposed Ystrips of Woven material conneoted together throughout thelength of the strap at equal-ly Ispaced pointe hy Woven threads of thematerial, the spaces between the connected portions of the Stripsproviding yeapually, spaced pockets, talos extending through pocketsarranged nearthe ends of the strap, and another tab extending through apocket at the folded portion of 10 the strap.

The foregoing specification of my linprovements in and relating tobraces, .signed by me this 20th day of October, 1920.

riEREMARl JOSEPH" LAFLCHE.

